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Japanese jazz photographer, designer, and author.

Born: 10 December 1929 in Tokyo, Japan.
Died: 17 September 2008 (aged 78).

Designer for the Whynot label in the 1970s. Published several books including 50 Jazz Greats From Heaven (1995).

ALBUMS

You Made Me Love You

1976, LP, Album, Kiva (2), Elec Records

APPEARANCES +

Consecration Immortal

2024, LP, Album, RSD, Ltd, Solid Records (6), Timeless Records (3),

Consecration II

Masahiko Togashi & Isao Suzuki

A Day Of The Sun

Queen Talk: Live At The Left Bank

Searching In Grenoble: The 1978 Solo Piano Concert

2022, 2xCD, Album, Tompkins Square,

On A Clear Day: The Oscar Peterson Trio - Live In Zurich, 1971

Premium Best~Jazz Giants

Juilliard String Quartet

The Complete Epic Recordings 1956-66

2018, 11xCD, RE, RM + Box, Comp, Sony Classical

Kunihiko Sugano = 菅野邦彦*, Isao Suzuki = 鈴木勲*

Sincerely Yours = シンシアリー・ユアーズ

The Progressive

The Don Friedman Trio*

The Don Friedman Trio

Toshiko Akiyoshi

The Riverside & Milestone Albums 1956 - 1963

2011, 15x CD, Box Set,

Cool Jazz/Modal

The Art History Project - Unreleased Art Vol. IV

2009, 3xCD, Comp, Widow's Taste

Mary Lou Williams With Roy Haynes, Ronnie Boykins

A Grand Night For Swinging

2008, CD, Album, HighNote Records, Inc.

Takashi Mizuhashi w/ Masaru Imada & Tsuyoshi Yamamoto

Toshiko Mariano & Her Trio = 秋吉敏子* = トシコ・マリアーノ&ハー・トリオ*

Lullabies For You = ララバイ・フォー・ユー ~ トシコの子守唄

Plays Bossa Nova

Toshiko Akiyoshi

Shibuya Jazz Classics - Monday Michiru Collection - Toshiko Akiyoshi Issue

2006, CD, Comp, Solid Records (6), BMG, Ultra-Vybe,

Big Band/Latin Jazz/Post Bop

Toshiko Akiyoshi-Lew Tabackin Big Band

Live At Newport II

Isao Suzuki & New Family Plus Shigeharu Mukai, Toshiyuki Honda

Mongolian Chant

Bolivia and Under Fire

The Modern Jazz Quartet

The Complete Modern Jazz Quartet Prestige & Pablo Recordings

Fumio Karashima = 辛島文雄*

Piranha = ピラニア

Wes Montgomery's Finest Hour

Instrumental/Contemporary Jazz/Bop

Milt Jackson Plays With Ichiro Masuda Quartet

The Rocky Boyd Quintet

The Bill Evans Trio

Turn Out The Stars

The Bill Evans Trio

Highlights From Turn Out The Stars

Contemporary Jazz

Phil Woods Quintet*

An Affair To Remember

Plays Horace Silver

The Milestone Years

Hard Bop/Post Bop/Jazz-Funk/Fusion/Modal

Lou Donaldson With The Red Garland Trio

Fine And Dandy Live In Digital Recording

Post Bop/Fusion

Buddy DeFranco Quintet

Chip Off The Old Bop

1992, CD, Album, Concord Jazz,

Marian McPartland

Plays The Music Of Alec Wilder

Toshiyuki Miyama And His New Herd*

1991, CD, Album, Teichiku Records

CTI Summer Jazz At The Hollywood Bowl

As Time Goes By

Not A Through Street (Art Pepper Live In Yamagata '78)

First Live In Japan

Charles Mingus With Orchestra

The Paris Concert

1989, CD, Album, RE, RM, Fantasy

The Count Basie Orchestra* Directed By Frank Foster

The Legend, The Legacy

Toshiko Akiyoshi Jazz Orchestra Featuring Lew Tabackin and Frank Wess

Wishing Peace From "Liberty Suite"

The Phil Woods Quintet

Bop/Post Bop/Modal

The Complete Fantasy Recordings

Cool Jazz/Post Bop/Modal

Junko Sings Ballads At Good Day Club

1988, CD, Album, All Art

Phil Woods' Little Big Band

Count Basie And His Orchestra* Featuring Joe Williams

Count On The Coast Vol. II

Freddie Hubbard & Woody Shaw

The Eternal Triangle

Count Basie And His Orchestra* Featuring Joe Williams

Count On The Coast Vol. I

The Phil Woods Quintet

The Concord All Stars

The Concord All Stars With Special Guest Ernestine Anderson

George Shearing With Special Guest Ernestine Anderson

Thad Jones & The Count Basie Orchestra*

Roland Hanna & George Mraz

Ursula Holliger, Debussy*, Ravel*, Caplet*

Französische Meisterwerke Für Harfe - Chefs-D'Œuvres Français Pour Harpe

Rosemary Clooney

Rosemary Clooney Sings The Lyrics Of Johnny Mercer

Sonny Stitt With Hank Jones Trio

Jon Faddis & Billy Harper

Count Basie And His Orchestra* Featuring Joe Williams

Count On The Coast Vol. III

1986, LP, Phontastic,

Charlie Shoemake Sextet Featuring Phil Woods

1986, LP, Album, Discovery Records

Contemporary Alternate Takes

Bill Evans With Philly Joe Jones*

Green Dolphin Street

The Count Basie Orchestra*

Long Live The Chief

Jazz Guitar Clinic Live

1985, 2xLP, Album, Pablo Records

Stars Fell On Alabama: The Best of Jack Teagarden

1985, Laserdisc, 12", S/Sided, Mono, NTSC, CLV, Toei Video

Maxine Sullivan With The Scott Hamilton Quintet

Toshiko Akiyoshi Trio

Count Basie And His Orchestra* Featuring Joe Williams

Count On The Coast Vol. II

1984, LP, Phontastic,

Toshiko Akiyoshi-Lew Tabackin Big Band

Live At Newport '77

1984, LP, Comp, RE, RCA,

Post Bop/Big Band

The Modern Jazz Quartet

Ornette Coleman

Newport Jazz Festival: Live (Unreleased Highlights From 1956, 1958, 1963)

Dixieland/Big Band/Swing/Cool Jazz/Bop/Stride

Chris Conner*, Ernestine Anderson, Carol Sloane

Thelonious Monk

Live At The Jazz Workshop

Cannonball Adderley

A Day With Cannonball Adderley 1963

The Oscar Peterson Big 4

Freedom Song (The Oscar Peterson Big 4 In Japan '82)

1983, 2xLP, Album, Pablo Records, Pablo Live

Some Things Speak For Themselves

Art Blakey & The All Star Jazz Messengers*

At The Hickory House Volume 2

Isao Suzuki Quintet Featuring Kosei Uchida

Yoshitaka Akimitsu

Thelonious Monk

Thelonious Monk 1963 In Japan

Time Speaks – Dedicated To The Memory Of Clifford Brown

Toshiyuki Honda, Chick Corea, Miroslav Vitous, Roy Haynes

Contemporary Jazz/Fusion/Hard Bop

Smooth Jazz/Jazz-Funk

Kenny Drew, Red Mitchell

洞氤 - Kenny Drew Meets Red Mitchell At 歪珠亭

1982, LP, ICR (3)

Take The 'A' Train

1982, LP, Album, Technics

Kenichi Yoshida Piano Trio = 吉田賢一ピアノ・トリオ*

The Shadow Of Your Smile = いそしぎ

1982, LP, Album, A&A Records (8)

Buddy Rich Big Band Featuring Richie Cole

Harry Edison All-Stars

'S Wonderful - Live At Club House 33

AJF '82 All Star Jam

Billy Hart - Walter Bishop Jr.* - George Mraz

Toshiyuki Miyama & New Herd*

Europop/Pop Rock/Synth-pop/Disco

The Woody Herman Big Band

Aurex Jazz Festival '82

Free Improvisation/Contemporary Jazz

Monty Alexander ▪ Ray Brown ▪ Herb Ellis

After The Bridge

Art Pepper And George Cables

Jaco Pastorius Big Band = ジャコ・パストリアス・ビッグ・バンド*

Twins I (Aurex Jazz Festival '82) = オーレックス・ジャズ・フェスティバル '82 ライヴ Twins I

The Dave Brubeck Quartet

Aurex Jazz Festival '82

Jaco Pastorius Big Band

Twins II (Aurex Jazz Festival '82)

The Oscar Peterson Big 4

Freedom Song (The Oscar Peterson Big 4 In Japan '82)

Helen Merrill, Rodgers & Hammerstein

Rodgers & Hammerstein Album

Tommy Flanagan Trio

Aurex Jazz Festival '81 Fusion Super Jam

1981, LP, Album, Eastworld,

1981, 2xLP, Comp, Legends Of Music,

Toshiko Akiyoshi-Lew Tabackin Big Band

Farewell To Mingus

Crusaders* = クルセイダーズ*

"Ongaku Kai" Live In Japan = 音楽会ライヴ・イン・ジャパン

The Shelly Manne Trio*

Goodbye For Bill Evans

Bobby Hutcherson

John Kaizan Neptune And Mu'ryō

Masahiko Togashi

The Face Of Percussion

Toshiko Akiyoshi-Lew Tabackin Big Band

From Toshiko With Love

Bobby Hutcherson

1980, LP, Album, Ltd, Blue Note,

1980, LP, Album, Carnival (2)

Art Pepper, John Klemmer, Johnny Griffin, Joe Farrell, Joe Henderson, Harold Land With Rhythm Section Of Stanley Cowell, Roy Haynes, Cecil McBee, John Heard

Birds & Ballads

Red Mitchell, Isao Suzuki, Tsuyoshi Yamamoto

Bass Club = ベース・クラブ

Roland Hanna Trio

Time For The Dancers

Great Paris Concert «2»

Minor Revelation

Max Roach And Abbey Lincoln

Sounds As A Roach

The Super Guitar Fusion

In His Early Days

Tommy Flanagan, Red Mitchell

A Night In Tunisia

Heinz Holliger, Berner Streichquartett, Schola Cantorum Stuttgart, Clytus Gottwald, Walter Grimmer

Streichquartett / Die Jahreszeiten / Chaconne Für Violoncello Solo

Toshiko Akiyoshi-Lew Tabackin Big Band

Salted Gingko Nuts

The Duke Pearson Quintet, Donald Byrd, Johnny Coles, Bob Cranshaw, Walter Perkins, Duke Pearson

Sadik Hakim Trio

Ornette Coleman

An Evening With Ornette Coleman «2»

Tippin' The Scales

Bobby Hutcherson

Art Blakey = アート・ブレイキー*

Pisces = ピスシス

Junko* Meets Hank Jones Trio

Once In The Evening

Anita O'Day With John Poole Trio Featuring Norman Simmons

Live At Mingo's

Sings Cole Porter "You Are The Top"

Art Pepper Quartet

Art Is The Art Vol. 1

Takeo Moriyama Quartet, Shigeharu Mukai

Paul Chambers (3) & Philly Joe Jones*

Gettin' Together

John Lewis (2) With Hank Jones

Toshiyuki Miyama And His New Herd*

Art Blakey And His Jazz Messengers*

Hiromasa Suzuki Trio

Art Pepper Quartet

Art Is The Art Vol. 2

The Legendary Scott LaFaro

Skylark – Live At Sometime

CTI Summer Jazz At The Hollywood Bowl Live Three

1977, LP, Album, Ter, CTI Records

1977, LP, Album, RE, Trio Records

Toshiko Akiyoshi

Long Yellow Road

Clifford Brown & Max Roach

Live At Bee Hive Chicago 1955 – Raw Genius 2

Live At Sometime

Contemporary Jazz/Instrumental

Oscar Peterson In Paris

Stan Getz Quartet

Come Into Knowledge

Johnny Griffin Meets Dexter Gordon

Jazz Undulation

Lee Konitz Quintet

Figure & Spirit

CTI Summer Jazz At The Hollywood Bowl Live One

Free Jazz/Modal

Buddy DeFranco - Tal Farlow Quintet

The Great Encounter

The Wynton Kelly Quartet W/ Hank Mobley

Interpretations By The Wynton Kelly Quartet

Hank Jones Trio

Toshiko Akiyoshi-Lew Tabackin Big Band

March Of The Tadpoles

Post Bop/Big Band

CTI Summer Jazz At The Hollywood Bowl Live Three

Fusion/Jazz-Funk/Funk

Ornette Coleman

The Unprecedented Music Of Ornette Coleman = 未踏峰

The Oscar Peterson Trio

In Tokyo (Live At The Palace Hotel)

Monty Alexander

Concerto D'Aranjuez

Clifford Brown & Max Roach*

Raw Genius - Live At Bee Hive Chicago 1955 Vol 1

Burton For Certain

Piano Interpretation - Al Haig Solo

Toshiko Akiyoshi-Lew Tabackin Big Band

Live At Newport '77

Big Band/Contemporary Jazz

Lonnie Liston Smith

Masaru Imada And George Mraz

Junko* & Barney*

A Tribute To The Great Hollywood Stars

CTI Summer Jazz At The Hollywood Bowl Live Two

A Legendary Performer

Cannonball Adderley

Autumn Leaves - Cannonball Adderley Live In Tokyo

1976, LP, Album, RE, Riverside Records,

Contemporary Jazz

Haydn* - Meiko Miyazawa

Haydn's Piano Sonata's - Vol. 1

1976, LP, Album, Columbia

S. Sawada* Vs. S. Nakamure*

沢田駿吾 VS. 中牟礼貞則

1976, LP, Album, Teichiku Records

Satin Doll (Dedicated To Duke Ellington)

Billie Holiday At Storyville

Junko Mine With Special Guests : Thad Jones & Mel Lewis

A Child Is Born

Toshiko Akiyoshi-Lew Tabackin Big Band

1976, 2x Vinyl Gatefold Sleeve,

Bop/Big Band/Swing

K.Saijo* Vs. H.Matsumoto*

K.Saijo Vs. H.Matsumoto

Toshiko Akiyoshi-Lew Tabackin Big Band

Junko Miné* W/ Roland Hanna Trio

Danielle Licari

Frank Foster And His Orch.*

Hachiro Aoyama, シャンブル・サンフォニエット*

斉藤耕一映画音楽の世界

Duke Pearson Trio

Freddie Hubbard

Ornette Coleman

An Evening With Ornette Coleman «1»

Muhal Richard Abrams

Free Jazz/Free Improvisation

Roy Ayers Ubiquity

A Tear To A Smile

The Dave Bailey Sextet

Tell Us Only The Beautiful Things

Walter Bishop Jr. Trio* = ウォルター・ビショップ・ジュニア・トリオ*

Speak Low = スピーク・ロウ

Toshiko Akiyoshi-Lew Tabackin Big Band

Long Yellow Road

Big Band/Contemporary Jazz

Joseph Bonner* Featuring Clint Houston & Billy Hart

Contemporary Jazz

Air (4) Feat. Henry Threadgill, Fred Hopkins & Steve McCall

Contemporary Jazz/Free Improvisation

1974, 3xLP, Comp + Box, Impulse!, ABC Records

Dee Dee Bridgewater

Thad Jones - Mel Lewis* & The Jazz Orchestra

The Jacques Loussier Trio*

Play Bach - Live In Concert

Gracias A La Vida / Here's To Life

Cecil Taylor Unit*

Spring Of Two Blue-J's

Charlie Christian With Benny Goodman

Charlie Christian At The Carnegie Hall ~1939

Toshiko Akiyoshi-Lew Tabackin Big Band

Hard Bop/Avant-garde Jazz

Jim Hall / Ron Carter Duo

Hold On, I'm Comin'

Afro-Cuban Jazz/Soul-Jazz/Fusion/Modal

Gato Barbieri With Lonnie Liston Smith

Roy Ayers Ubiquity

Red Black & Green

Roy Ayers Ubiquity

村岡実とニュー・ディメンション・グループ*

1972, LP, Album, King Records

Mal Waldron - Steve Lacy*

Journey Without End

The Evolution Of Mann

1972, 2x Vinyl MO - Monarch Pressing,

Roy Ayers Ubiquity

Soul-Jazz/Jazz-Funk

New Heavenly Blue

New Heavenly Blue

Freddie Hubbard

Fusion/Jazz-Funk

...Where Would I Be?

村岡実とニュー・ディメンション・グループ*

Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66*

1971, LP, Comp, A&M Records, A&M Records, A&M Records,

Bossa Nova/Latin Jazz

Mal Waldron & Gary Peacock

First Encounter

Helen Merrill With Gary Peacock Trio

Memphis Two-Step

Rhythm & Blues/Soul

Henderson's Habiliment

God Bless The Child

Mal Waldron = マル・ウォルドロン*

The Call = ザ・コール

1970, 7", Single, King Records

CTI Double Deluxe

1970, 2xLP, Comp, A&M Records,

Jazz-Funk/Bossa Nova

愛は不死鳥

1970, 7", Single, King Records

ダブル・デラックス

1970, 2xLP, Comp, King Records, King Records

Malcolm Roberts = マルコム・ロバーツ*

Love Is All = ラヴ・イズ・オール

Bamboo = バンブー

Makoto Moroi, Chikuho Sakai, Syohdoh Sakai

Five Pieces For Shakuhachi "Chikurai"/Five Dialogues For Two Shakuhachis/Shin Mukaiji

Golden Ray Charles Double De Luxe = ゴールデン・レイ・チャールズ・ダブル・デラックス

1969, 2xLP, Comp, Gat, ABC Records, ABC Records, ABC Records,

1969, 3xLP + 7", Promo + Box, Comp, Impulse!, ABC Records,

Free Jazz/Post Bop/Modal

Fusion/Post Bop/Modal/Latin Jazz

Count Buffalo & The Jazz Rock Band*

Soul & Rock = ソウル・アンド・ロック

Count Buffalo & The Jazz Rock Band*

Prayer With Faith And Love = 神に愛と折りを

Minoru Muraoka With New Jazz Players*

ムライキ = Muraiki / 追分 = Oiwake

1968, 7", Single, Denon

Bunnys* = バニーズ*

Bunnys Golden Concert = バニーズ・ゴールデン・コンサート

Beat/Garage Rock/Group Sounds

The Dave Brubeck Quartet

Hey Brubeck, Take Five

Nobuo Hara & His Sharps And Flats* Meets Hōzan Yamamoto*

New Jazz In Japan = 日本のニュー・ジャズ

村岡実*, 山屋浩とオールスターズ*

これぞモダン尺八/第2集 = This Is Modern Shakuhachi Vol.2

Jackey Yoshikawa And His Blue Comets = ジャッキー吉川とブルー・コメッツ*

Blue Comets Original Hit's Vol.2 = ブルー・コメツ=オリジナル・ヒット第2集

1967, LP, Album, CBS,

How To Give Yourself A Stereo Check-Out

Artistry Of Art Blakey

1966, LP, Comp, Fontana

Artistry Of Bill Evans

1966, LP, Comp, Fontana

Artistry Of Max Roach

1966, LP, Album, Mercury

Artistry Of Sonny Rollins

1966, LP, Comp, Fontana

Ramsey Lewis Trio*

Artistry Of Ramsey Lewis

Frank Chacksfield & His Orchestra = フランク・チャックスフィールド管弦楽団*

The New Limelight = フェイズ4 / "新ライムライト"

Col Joye And The Joy Boys

Exciting Big Beat !!! / これがエレキ・ビートだ !!!

テッド・ヒース* & エドムンド・ロス*

ヒース対ロス = Heath Vs. Ros

Latin Rendezvous = ラテン・ランデヴー

1963, LP, Album, London Records

Rimsky-Korsakov*, Ansermet* / Borodin*, Ansermet*

Scheherazade / Polovtsian Dances

Tony Mottola And His Orchestra = トニー・モットーラと彼のオーケストラ*

Spanish Guitar = スパニッシュ・ギター

日本軍歌名曲集

1962, LP, Album, Mono, King Records

たわむれないで = Ne Joue Pas (Yōko Kishi Et Ses Chansons)

1962, 10", Album, Mono, King Records

Julian "Cannonball" Adderley Quintet*

Ballads Of John Coltrane

CD, Comp, Impulse!, Impulse!

K.Yashiro* Vs. Y.Sera*

K.Yashiro Vs. Y.Sera

LP, Album, Teichiku Records

Frank Foster / Al Cohn Quartet

Frank Foster First Album + Al Cohn Quartet

LP, Mono, Vogue

CTI All-Stars Live At The Hollywood Bowl - Special Digest -

LP, Comp, Promo, CTI Records

7", EP, CBS/Sony

The Count Basie Orchestra*

Long Live The Chief

CD, Album, Denon, Denon,

Stanley Black, His Piano And Latin Rhythms

Gershwin Goes Latin

Renata Tebaldi, Puccini*, Verdi* = レナータ・テバルディ*, プッチーニ*, ヴェルディ*

Arias From Puccini And Verdi = プッチーニ、ヴェルディ歌劇アリア集

Lazar Berman, Franz Liszt

Lazar Berman Plays Liszt.

Carmen Leggio Quartet

The Capp/Pierce Orchestra* Featuring Ernie Andrews

Juggernaut Strikes Again!

Mal Waldron & Gary Peacock

First Encounter

The Complete Uppsala Concert

Philly Joe Jones*

Stan Getz Quartet Featuring Chick Corea

Charlie Mingus*

Art Blakey And His Jazz Messengers*

Ornette Coleman

The Unprecedented Music Of Ornette Coleman

Dizzy Gillespie

Come Into Knowledge

The Phil Woods Quintet